Dear fellow bloggers, Don’t you love it when you go from not knowing what you’ll write about, to not knowing how to keep your Very Exciting Topic focused, in a matter of moments?
… and then I thought: open access! Of course!
As a longtime science journalist, I am familiar with the heavy-hitting journals: Science, Nature, Proceedings [...]
Termite kings are fine for fathering the workers, but when it comes to producing daughters, the queen’s got it under control, thanks …
That’s the new finding from researchers in Raleigh, North Carolina and Japan, embellished with my romantic cynicism.
Scientifically speaking, here are the goods: the researchers have shown for the first time that it is possible for certain [...]
Scientific American usually does a great job — but today, I suspect their reporters weren’t listening very closely when they wrote this post: “Texas vote moves evolution to the top of the class.”
I listened this afternoon to the Texas Board of Education as its members revised the state’s science teaching standards, and it sounded to me [...]
Lest you think I’m as bad at math as I really am, let me just say I know I skipped Day 60.
Day 60 is dead to me.
On Day 60, I landed at the doctor’s office again, because an infection didn’t respond to the first antibiotic — so now I’m on two. Yesterday, I felt awful. [...]
It’s a bit of an understatement to say journalists have been coming under scrutiny lately for coverage of climate change. On the extreme end of the criticism is the allegation that “the media” (can you tell I hate that, “the media?”) is deliberately hoodwinking the general public to believe in global warming. I’m not really sure [...]
